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ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



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Read January 2^th, 1906. 

 By Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., F.C.S. 



/^entlemen, — From the Report of the Council which 

 ^-* you have just heard, I think the Society must be 

 congratulated on its continued satisfactory condition. 



Our numbers have fallen off slightly, as we have lost 

 thirteen and gained only eight new members, but the 

 general interest in the Society has been well maintained. 



I regret to have to record the death of one of our members. 

 Norman Dalziel Warne died on August 25th, after a short 

 illness. He was elected in 1888, and although not a frequent 

 attendant at the meetings during the last few years, always 

 took a keen interest in the Society and was a generous 

 contributor to the Library. 



Among a number of well-known naturalists outside our 

 own Society who have passed away during the last year I 

 might mention : 



Henri de Saussure, Hon. F.E.S., the famous Swiss ento- 

 mologist, one of the most prolific writers on the Orthoptera. 

 He aiso did much original work on Hymenoptera. He died 

 February 20th, at the age of 75. 



Dr. Alpheus Spring Packard, Professor of Zoology and 

 Geology in Brown University, and one of the foremost ento- 

 mologists in America, died on February 14th, aged 67. 



F. O. Pickard Cambridge was well known as an arachno- 

 logist, his contributions to science being very numerous and 



